A temporary platform for research, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, talks, focusing on the phenomena around the interface between art, technology, and society
 
“Forking” means “to branch off.”  In open-source culture, "forking" sometimes expresses a process in which codes or technologies diverge into several versions.  Forkingroom is both a temporary platform and an ongoing project where research, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and talks are performed using the common and incompatible branches of such "forking" as models of execution. 

As Forkingroom covers topics of contemporary phenomena that society, technology, and art can face and address in common, it sets research and prototyping as platforms to be significantly dealt with. We think of research as newly recognizing contemporary social, economic, and ecological conditions, dealing with them with autonomous self-theory and methods, and recording and presenting the processes. Based on the individual research processes, Forkingroom aims to become a platform where we address the composition of commonness that can be interchanged between art, technology, and society. 

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Launched in 2017, Forkingroom has been annually operated as a form of special programs, invitations, and open-calls, while being participated by activists, researchers, artists, and educators. It has encompassed broad topics including artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning, datasets, machine vision, synthetic media, data and computing devices, and smart cities, in its programs of research labs, exhibitions, talks, workshops, performances, and tours. 

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